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in particular, president clinton, and he and i during the time i was both omb director and then as his chief of staff, would spend many hours of conversation talking about his experience as a southern baptist getting a catholic education. he talked about it a lot. and also during my time, obviously in the obama administration, i greatly benefited from many of the georgetown graduates. i had the honor to have someone as my chief of staff, jeremy bash, who graduated from georgetown, served as my chief of staff at the cia and followed me to the pentagon as my chief of staff. and also someone who is head of public affairs at the pentagon, george little, who is also someone who both graduated and later taught here at georgetown. talented, young individuals who have been at my side every day for the last four years at both the cia and the pentagon. and i'm deeply grateful for fore work on behalf of me and on behalf of the nation. and i'm deeply grateful to georgetown for training such extraordinary public servants. and speaking of extraordinary public servants, i think many in this audience
in particular, president clinton, and he and i during the time i was both omb director and then as his chief of staff, would spend many hours of conversation talking about his experience as a southern baptist getting a catholic education. he talked about it a lot. and also during my time, obviously in the obama administration, i greatly benefited from many of the georgetown graduates. i had the honor to have someone as my chief of staff, jeremy bash, who graduated from georgetown, served as my...
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though clinton in 1992 inherited the democratic party that is in very bad streets. the lost five out of six presidential elections from 68 to 1988. he understood that party had to be reformed and he did it through several issues. we talked about community, opportunity and social responsibility and tough on crime and so forth. that signals to middle-class voters that bill clinton is a different kind of democrat. he gave himself that name. tony blair to the same thing with the labor party in england. the labor party have been crushed in four straight elections and hadn't gotten more than 40% of the vote since 1970 and blair are not a mistake to say that, i am part of what he called new labour. he wanted to modernize the party and aged it in several ways. he took on elements of the labor party that were most radical and got rid of them in the platform. there is a crime wave sweeping england in the early 90s and he spoke in a way that no labor party candidate had done anyone any fantastic historic collection. i don't think the republican party is quite his best streets
though clinton in 1992 inherited the democratic party that is in very bad streets. the lost five out of six presidential elections from 68 to 1988. he understood that party had to be reformed and he did it through several issues. we talked about community, opportunity and social responsibility and tough on crime and so forth. that signals to middle-class voters that bill clinton is a different kind of democrat. he gave himself that name. tony blair to the same thing with the labor party in...
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you're getting in second-hand, but one of our friends, a deputy assistant secretary treasury in the clinton administration tells a story about killing and beating up with larry summers. the administration wanted to give money to subsidize school construction. if anything sounds like an expenditure item it is financing school construction, and the issue was that the tax paper said we really should add this to the tax code. larry summers was saying, the only way we can get it, they jiggered fancy school construction bond that was a deduction and all sorts of ways to make this a tax cut rather than a spending increase because they thought they could get it through congress that way. that is part of what is going on is this gaming of whether something is a spending and more tax cut leading to a lot of distortions which are separate from the issue over the you want to do the particular subsidy or the particular item in question. >> to you want to weigh in? >> in our annual report remade the complexity of the cut the number one most serious problem for taxpayers. we made the point that one person
you're getting in second-hand, but one of our friends, a deputy assistant secretary treasury in the clinton administration tells a story about killing and beating up with larry summers. the administration wanted to give money to subsidize school construction. if anything sounds like an expenditure item it is financing school construction, and the issue was that the tax paper said we really should add this to the tax code. larry summers was saying, the only way we can get it, they jiggered fancy...
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that's what it was under president clinton when we balanced the federal budget, balanced the federal budget. we actually had surpluses. and our economy was growing, job growth, moving in the right direction. well, our revenues have dipped to about 15% of our economy, so we're not anywhere near with as much revenue as we need in order to have a balanced approach that allows for job growth. and yes, our spending is too high, particularly on what we call the mandatory side. we agree with that. you look at our health care costs in this country, they are much higher than any other nation in the world, and we don't have the health results that would demonstrate why we're spending so much more. we need a more efficient system. that's why a lot of us supported the affordable care act because we see in it delivery system reform that will make our health care system more efficient, bring down the cost of hospital care by reducing readmissions, bring down the cost of hospital care by reducing hospital infection rates, bring down the cost of high-cost interventions by dealing with people with co
that's what it was under president clinton when we balanced the federal budget, balanced the federal budget. we actually had surpluses. and our economy was growing, job growth, moving in the right direction. well, our revenues have dipped to about 15% of our economy, so we're not anywhere near with as much revenue as we need in order to have a balanced approach that allows for job growth. and yes, our spending is too high, particularly on what we call the mandatory side. we agree with that. you...